Duncomb

Duncomb, vice president and chief financial officer.

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But I did then speak to the justifying what we had done, even to the angering of Duncomb and Clifford, which I was vexed at: but, for all that, I did set the Office and myself right, and went away with the victory, my Lord Keeper saying that he would not advise the Council to order us to sign no more certificates.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Duncomb, whose father, he tells me, was a long-Parliamentman, and a great

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668

Here I saw Duncomb look as big, and take as much state on him, as if he had been born a lord.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668

Among other merry discourse about spending of money, and how much more chargeable a man's living is now more than it was heretofore, Duncomb did swear that in France he did live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and wenches, than he believes can be done now for L200, which was pretty odd for him, being a Committee-man's son, to say.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Here I saw Duncomb look as big, and take as much state on him, as if he had been born a lord.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

But I did then speak to the justifying what we had done, even to the angering of Duncomb and Clifford, which I was vexed at: but, for all that, I did set the Office and myself right, and went away with the victory, my Lord Keeper saying that he would not advise the Council to order us to sign no more certificates.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1667/68 Pepys, Samuel 1668

Duncomb, and Sir Thomas Clifford: at which, he says, all the whole Court is disturbed; it having been once concluded otherwise into the other hands formerly mentioned in yesterday's notes, but all of a sudden the

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Among other merry discourse about spending of money, and how much more chargeable a man's living is now more than it was heretofore, Duncomb did swear that in France he did live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and wenches, than he believes can be done now for L200, which was pretty odd for him, being a Committee-man's son, to say.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1667/68 Pepys, Samuel 1668

Court are angry at the rise of this Duncomb, whose father, he tells me, was a long-Parliamentman, and a great Committee-man; and this fellow used to carry his papers to Committees after him: he was a kind of an atturny: but for all this, I believe this man will be a great man, in spite of all.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668